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DEFINITION: v. To talk to yourself in a high-pitched, squeaky voice while performing complex mental gymnastics.n. The sounds a person makes when they are trying to think.
Verboticisms
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Squawkthinking
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: squa-k-think-ing
Sentence: he had such a habit of squawkthinking that he had to work in a soundproof cubicle.
Etymology: squawk-thinking
Ceronas
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: suh-rone-eh-s
Sentence: We all knew that Betty had a lot on her plate, but her ceronas was starting to distract people in the nearby cubicles.
Etymology: Cerebrum [latin: brain, skull] + Sonas [latin: sound]
Shrilliterate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: shrill-it-er-ate
Sentence: When lost in deep concentration, Rollie would involuntarily begin to shrillerate, repeating the same borderline incoherent mumbling in a high pitched childlike voice.
Etymology: Combination of Shrill (high-pitched, harsh in sound) and iterate (to say or do again; repeat)
Screechulate
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: screech/u/late
Sentence: His ability to screechulate while seated in front of his computer, impressed neither his co-workers nor his boss.
Etymology: screech + speculate
Cerebawl
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: ser-i-bol
Sentence: She couldn't bare the sound of his cerebawlling whenever he got writer's block.
Etymology: cerebral (relating to the brain, intellectual) + bawl (to shout or cry loudly)
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COMMENTS:
Call a wah--mbulance! - Nosila, 2011-01-13: 21:37:00
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Psychoticbabble
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: sigh-cot-tick-ba-bell
Sentence: Ron used the pshychoticbabble technique when he was doing quantum physics problems.
Etymology:
Scaticulate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: scat-tic-u-late
Sentence: Jan could tell by the grinding and squeaking noises coming from the study that Paul had begun to scaticulate about the budget.
Etymology: scat: in jazz-- a vocal style where the singer shows vocal dexterity by improvising a melody over the chords or rhythm using sounds or meaningless syllables a la Bobby McFerrin, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway or Popeye + tic: involuntary movements or vocalizations (often seen in persons with tourette syndrome) + speculate: to meditate or reflect on a subject
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COMMENTS:
scategorically good word! - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:56:00
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Batmathics
Created by: fmgene
Pronunciation: bath-mat-ics
Sentence: .
Etymology: bat + math _ gymnastics
Thoughtditory
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: thot dit toree
Sentence: Cousin Eddy's thoughtditory process was to squeak, honk and make animal noises while compiling his April returns. April herself found it all very taxing...
Etymology: Thought(the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about) & Auditory (of or relating to the process of hearing)
Modusoperanti
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: mow-dus-oper-an-tie
Sentence: Clive's secretary, with finger to her lips, whispered "He's in modusoperanti again ... the publishers are waiting for the final pages and he's been up all night."
Etymology: from modus operandi (procedural method) + opera (vocal piece) + rant (talk excitedly)
